Forest Hills

Forest Hills is an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Forest Hills was formed in 1906 as an aggregation of 600 acres of land in western Long Island, and the neighborhood was modelled after England's garden communities, featuring Tudor-style architecture. In 2010, Forest Hills had a population of 83,728 people, with 45.9% being whites, 24.2% Asians, 12.4% Hispanics, 2.5% African-Americans, 2.1% multiracial people, .4% other races, .1% Native Americans, and almost 0% (22 people) Pacific islanders; Forest Hills is now known as a predominantly Russian and Central Asian Jewish community.